I've got a couple of laptops sitting around running Lion and Mountain
Lion respectively. I've built my own client several times before but
fumbled around with it each time since I've never documented it well
or automated any part of it. I'd be willing to work with others on
improving documentation and helping with packages for OS X users. It
might be a fair bit of work up front but in the long term I think we
could make it pretty painless.
Quoting Tony Bandy <to...@ohionet.org>:
Hi all,
I've got an OSX iMac to help volunteer with! I can't say I'm a OSX guru,
but really good at following instructions! If anyone wants to work with
me, I could probably devote some hours to helping out, at least testing,
etc. I think I've got Xcode (?) installed somewhere on my iMac....
Tony
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Galen Charlton <g...@esilibrary.com> wrote:
Hi,
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
<alexey.la...@mnsu.edu> wrote:
> What is the reason for lack of "official" releases of staff client
software for Mac OS (and Linux)? Is it strategy, because there is no need,
or like with some other things, not enough volunteers?
I don't think it's a strategy per se, just more a lack of volunteers.
If somebody were to step forward and volunteer to package OS X clients
as part of the release-cutting process, I think that would be welcomed
with open arms. Even better would be if somebody could submit a patch
to automate building them. Triple-word-score if it could be done
without requiring an OS X box.
Similiarly, if somebody were to step up and get involved in packing
the Linux clients for various distributions, that would be great. The
technical bar is lower, as Thomas' good work with the staff client
autoupdate mechanism means that it's become quite easy to build Linux
clients; at this point the main question is whether somebody is up to
maintaining and testing .deb or ..rpm.
Regards,
Galen
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